Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health saw a 161 percent increase in emergency room visits involving scooters this year after comparing its statistics with the same three-month period in 2017, The Washington Post reports.

Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, both in Lewiston, Maine, are pledging to revise policies and increase staff education after turning away mental health patients from the emergency room, which is a form of patient dumping illegal under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, The Portland Press Herald reports.

Active shooter training and simulations show promise in properly equipping emergency room nurses and other hospital staff members, survey results published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing revealed.

As Independence Day approaches, hospitals can expect a number of patients landing in emergency departments with fireworks-related injuries. The Consumer Product Safety Commission's 2017 Fireworks Annual Report found about 12,900 injuries treated in U.S. EDs during 2017 involved fireworks.

The number of frequent emergency department users, or those who visit the ED at least four times a year, increased in California after the ACA took effect, according to a recent study published in Health Affairs.

As many emergency departments operate 24/7, consumers may be surprised when an "after-hours" surcharge is added to their bill, Kaiser Health News contributor Michelle Andrews wrote in the column "Insuring Your Health."

Sixty-five percent of hospitals have a case management program in their emergency departments, and of that percentage, nearly a quarter run their programs 24/7, according to a recent Change Healthcare survey.

After two women were shot while standing outside of Chicago-based Mount Sinai Hospital in early May, the Chicago Tribune spoke to several emergency room workers who compared their experiences dealing with violent patients, their families and, oftentimes, their fellow gang members to working in a "war zone."

A 34-year-old patient arrived at Cooperstown, N.Y-based Bassett Medical Center's emergency room with a "thunderclap headache" after eating a Carolina Reaper pepper, according to an article published in BMJ Case Reports.

The emergency room at Logan (W.Va.) Regional Medical Center was flooded with two to three inches of water March 21 after an "irate" patient pulled a fire alarm, which triggered the hospital's sprinkler system, according to a WSAZ report.

The Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians launched a pilot program with the Massachusetts Hospital Association to alert state hospitals of patients who are frequently in and out of different emergency room, which could better coordinate care for high-risk patients, according to a WBUR report.